Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hard sauce

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: hard sauce
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

hard sauces (plural)

Questions

What does hard sauce mean?: A rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.

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